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Originally Posted by Blossom
I'm not complaining at all just a new Kindle user wanting some information please. I just had it for a week and wanted to hear from others to make sure it's not defective.
My only experience is with my old reader which got cranky like that when the battery was low due to buggy firmware you could not trust the battery gauge on the reader so I was asking if anyone else's reader got cranky like that and what it meant. I decided to charge it to see if that fixes the problem to confirm if it's a low battery or not.
It was acting very slow as well all of sudden besides blacker page turns, letter from previous pages faintly showing on the next page. On my older reader it did this when the battery was low so I just assume maybe the Kindle acts the same but from your posts it sounds like it works more like a netbook type battery then my previous reader acted just cranky when the battery was low.
Which brings me to next question. Will it shorten the battery life to not let the battery run down before charging it? On my older reader they told us to never let the battery go past two bars before charging. When it the best time to charge the Kindle?
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My battery is just below half and I had a quick page turn test, it is a little slower than normal however it did speed up when I turned off wi-fi.
Some thread here (a search will find it) someone calculated the lighted cover will drain the Kindle battery in around 20 hours, so your 2 hours would have knocked off about 10%, plus whatever was used in indexing the 30 books you put on it. You also have the 3G, AFAIK when you turn wireless on both wifi and 3g turn on, and Amazon say 10 days reading with the wireless turned on for that model. I know when our first Kindle turned up it chewed through the battery in the first few days as I was web surfing etc (however overall we got 4 weeks).
I generally keep wireless off on my Kindle. I don't get periodicals and the simplicity of syncing the Kindle and being prompted to turn the wireless on etc is not a real issue given the increased battery life.
I don't think it is defective. I reckon you'll find after a few charge/discharge cycles it will look better. I don't believe the battery life will shorten, it has a similar battery to the Pocket Pro, and I personally feel the same methods should be used, charge/discharge fully 2-3 times to calibrate the battery, then charge from about 50% or so and every 10-15 partial charges do a full discharge/charge just to recalibrate.